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Linguistic Landscape Conference in memory of Nira Trumper-Hecht December 15, 2011 Tel-Aviv University The conference will take place in Dan David building room 111, 14:00-18:30 invitation (Hebrew)
A petition for Arabic signs on Tel Aviv University campusA Tel Aviv University student got 40 faculty members to sign a petition demanding that Arabic be added to signs on campus (August 11, 2011) read more English Hebrew
Proposed law to rescind Arabic as one of Israel's official languagesForty MK's from both the coalition and opposition submitted a proposal to the Knesset (August 3rd 2011) for a new Basic Law that would define Israel as "the national home for the Jewish people". The bill proposes that Hebrew would be the only official language in Israel and Arabic will be accorded "special status". Hebrew English

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The Language Policy Research Center at Bar-Ilan University carries out basic and applied research in the study of how societies deal with the demands and benefits of multilingualism.

GOALS:

Israel is a complex, multilingual society, speaking some 40 or more different languages. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Hebrew became the national language some fifty years after its revival as the language of Zionist identity. The majority of the population uses Hebrew, but for only half of them is it their mother tongue. To read more about multilingualism in Israel, click here

The Language Policy Research Center was established at Bar-Ilan University in order to conduct research in all aspects of language policy and in the related fields like sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language learning, innovative strategies of language teaching, language planning and language assessment that are relevant to the development of language policy.

People

Founding Director:

Prof. Emeritus Bernard Spolsky

Director:

Prof. Miriam Shlesinger

Principal Investigators:

Prof. Roselyne Koren
Prof. Shmuel Refael
Dr. David Rier
Dr. Michal Schuster
Prof. Ora Schwarzwald
Prof. Joel Walters
Dr. Dafna Yitzhaki

Website Content Manager:

Dr. Dafna Yitzhaki